Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-29

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Imagination and make your heart glow
with enthusiasm, these shsmelessl creetures
With their bare backs turned to the stage
and their equally bare bosoms exposed TO
the view Of thousands, giggle and flrt ana
whisper behind their fans SO as TO
attract the attention of the thoughtless
and secure the calm, indignant look OF
the judicious. Our papers are filled with
stores Of scandal in what they are pleased
to term "high life."
money.
Read in our conspicuous metropolitan
dailies the lists that are published day in
and day out Of the high lifers who attend
this wedding, that reception, the other
occasion of festivity. Do you find ever,
in either CT those lists, the name of q man
noted along the path of science, to whom
the world is indebted for en- inspiring
thought, whose heart he's ever pulsated in
the interest CT common humanity, whose
hand has ever been ourstretcned with 8
generous palm to The suffering and the
poor? You know you don't. You know
you resd the same everlasting string of
sickeniBg nobodies, their money being left
out of the calculation The women, ss 6
rule, are frivolous in manner, heartless
IN conduct. They initiate the weaknesses
of foreigners, and disregard the homely
+ virtues of the good wherever they are
| found. Men who cen find eXhilaration in
chasing another man with an anise-seed
| bag in his coat-tail, who think it's the
proper csper to be known in an intelli-
gent community by reason offs peculiarly
cut collar or an idiOtic stare, men whose
| moral nature SENDS forth as absolute &
stencil along the line of existence as that
which issues from their cigarette pol
| luted mouths, ana sons Of these rich men
respect virtue nowhere. They recognize
honor nowhere, save what they are
pleased to call their de Dts Of
honor. A man who will cheat his tailor
out OF 500 would scour the city to raise
$1,000 that he lost at CARDS. These
''scandals in high life," with which our
papers are filed, ramify the entire realm
of dirt, domestic infidelity, dishonor in
sill its many phases. Indecent men, dis
honorable women, seek refuge in our di-
vOrce courts.
| Now and then some one OF them has
wit enough to blow the top of his head off
with pistol ball.
Many Of them find their way to our
ssylums, and jibber and chatter in I'm
conscious idlocy, precisely as in earlier
days they have itbbered and cdstteIe
like foreign monk, Us with such sense as
| God originally endowed them. What
sort OF society can be expected among
women to whom the cut OF e dress, the
| law of feather, are Of more consequence
than oil else in life? Whist can DE ex-
pected OF women who regard the birth Of
child as calamity, who look forward to
the careful rendering and nurturing OF
| o God-siven son or daughter as the
greatest curse that could happen, because
iorsooth it necessitates the taxing of
some time away from a group of msgpies,
company Of dissolute associates?
High Iifein New York is dancing toward
the pit of infamy.
| AND HOW ABOUT LOW LIFE?
Read the papers. Aldermen in jail,
courts flied with stories of dissipation
and crime OF every nature, Blackwel's
Island absolutely sWarming with men and
women so bad that the strong hand of the
law was compelled to push them beyond
the pale Of civilization. Sing Sing is
packed. The Tombs is overcroWded.
As certain IS the sun rises after its going
down comes the daily brawl, the nightly
Imurder. Burglars, thieves OF every na-
tuTe, dissipstious of every sort and kind,
thrive in the corrupt soil provided for
them By men and women in "high life"
who set bad examples, differing from
those in low life simply in the elutude OF
the tree in which they nest.
Why, we have got to that point Of
morals in this city that the universal
press are holding up for office young
man Of no special ability, OF no expert
ence whatever, simply because he is pre-
sumed to De honest, and he is presumed
to be honest because, having charge of
the prosecution CT certain prominent
cases in court, he did his best to convict
the men who were accused of crime.
That he differed from his chief, that he
differed from MS associates, l doubt very
much any one will dare to claim, and yet,
| having produced the impression that he
is honest, the press seek to-day to elevate
| him st the expense of his chief aud at
the expense Of his associates, using the
simple, solitary and al alone argument,
SIZE is honest" There is no pretense
that he has unusual ability, although he
is = bright, straigh. forward and promis-
| ing young man. There is no
pretense that he has had experience,
| because he Was taken without
| practice oy the favor OF MS present cnleI,
who made him trusted assistant, and as
such assistant he has done remarkably
! we'll for so young man. And the only
preteDse that he is any more honest than
anybody else is that he has eVirced d
very proper yea! in the prosecution of
| csses left in his charge
! What & common upon the morality Of
this great city, where there are lawyers of
u. usual ability, of wide extended expe-
rience and hitherto urquesEioned intea-
rity, that this young man, without any
| especial qualification, and without any
experience whatever, save that which he
has obtained by the favor Of his present
chief, is made an almost unanimous
| choice because he is honest.
Well, that's good sign after. sill.
l. begins to look as though there was
something besides money, something be-
sides slevisa imitation of foreign absurd
tiles, but this is the only indication, aud
that l am sure you will say is not over
much.
But we started with suggestion IS to
whether there was any subtle connection
between tue
MORAL AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS
of communities. That we are upset NOR.